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It’s not activated
Elder Germanos Stavrovouniotis
9 June 2023
Prayer without humility, self-examination and repentance isn’t activated.
Elder Germanos Stavrovouniotis...
They haven’t the right
Saint Isaac the Syrian
8 June 2023
Those who spend their lives in sin don’t have the right to hope in God’s help when they’re in trouble, before they repent.
Saint Isaac the Syrian...
The Gospel and Political Expediencies (2)
Apostolos Nikolaïdis Professor Emeritus, University of Athens, President of the ‘Saint Maxim the Greek’ Institute
7 June 2023
In this secularized environment for politics, and perhaps also for the institutionalized Church, protest movements are constantly arising whenever the State is considered to be denigrating Orthodox...
They may be lost
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
7 June 2023
Our aim isn’t to condemn evil but to remedy it. People can be lost if they’re condemned, but saved if they’re understood and helped.
Saint Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis...
The Gospel and Political Expediencies
Apostolos Nikolaïdis Professor Emeritus, University of Athens, President of the ‘Saint Maxim the Greek’ Institute
6 June 2023
The discussion concerning the relationship between Christ, Christianity and the Church on the one hand and politics on the other is very old. It centers on collaboration or confrontation, the exchange...
It’s not a discovery
Elder Moisis the Athonite †
6 June 2023
Sanctity isn’t isolation and it isn’t loneliness. Sanctity’s a beautiful and sacred relationship. A relationship with God, the source of sanctity, who sanctifies people and makes them images of me...
Discourse on the Holy Spirit, that is, on Pentecost
Saint Gregory of Nyssa
5 June 2023
David always gives the most joyful meaning to feasts, tuning his dulcet harp to the requirements of the festival. So let this same prophet delight us on the great feast of Pentecost, too, picking ou...
The Path towards Pentecost and the Last Times
Archimandrite Iakovos Kanakis
5 June 2023
The season after Easter is called ‘Pentikostario’. After the victory over death which was ushered in by Christ’s Resurrection, we go on to the great feast of Pentecost. Fifty days after Easter, we cel...
They throw away what little they have
Saint Paisios the Athonite
5 June 2023
If people have God’s grace, they’ll be given more; and if they’ve got little and disdain it, even that’ll be taken away from them. There’s no grace of God in people today because they’ve thrown aw...
Pentecost
Fr. Lev Gillet
4 June 2023
“We celebrate the feast of Pentecost and the coming of the Spirit, the appointed day of the promise, the fulfilment of hope”. With these words, at Vespers on the eve of the feast, the Church invites u...